I got a Sharp Android smart tv last year when my 2006 Samsung died and it works great without internet access. Cheapest one there was.

Something p2p like Tox or Briar, both annoying for daily use.

We went full circle to the early 2000s, slapping PGP on top of public messaging platforms!

There are so many cameras on the market, just don’t connect them to the internet. If you have a budget, buy an NVR, otherwise install Motion or Frigate on a PC to store footage.

Hetzner’s S3 is immature, they just started beta last year, and are rough at the edges

Keep downvoting that shit, let them know they are not welcome

The main Mastodon instance with their official app has discoverability. The difference is so much different from what I normally use - a 3rd party app and a 3rd party instance

Back then the CEOs were babbling about information superhighways while tech rolled their eyes

Facebook has shut down my pseudonymous account because i did not provide a photo of my ID. Try it, you should meet more like-minded people there than on Lemmy

I got some answers to a similar question here https://lemm.ee/post/45993313

Which reminds me that rss-bridge has a Facebook backend that sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t

https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/

I used to have a burner account and a program that logged in to FB with Selenium and converted certain “pages” into RSS feeds. It worked great when it did, but Facebook has a lot of measures against scraping, and I burned out trying to maintain this.

I don’t know a way to read their content without an account, which excludes me from a lot of local events.

Ah, yes. AI bad.

One scenario is that normies join en masse and influencers/marketers follow them, and the quality of conversation goes to zero like on all big platforms. You can’t solve this with software.

Nothing wrong about that

Yeah until you try to find a cab in a non familiar city while being offline.

I’m so happy to be here and read about Zuck, Elon and Google all the time

There is Diaspora, it is like a federated Facebook with a bit more privacy settings. All crickets now that everyone moved on to Mastodon.

There’s encrypted p2p stuff with nice apps like Scuttlebutt with Manyverse app, but nobody uses it.

There’s Movim which builds a social network layer over XMPP, so you can share to your contacts. Guess what - nobody uses it.

OpenBazaar, never took off

ChatGPT wrote a Python program that does select->Tesseract OCR for me, but it doesn’t always work right with two monitors. I’m too stupid to correct it. How have you done yours, what are you using for selecting the area?